“With the U.S. not just unwilling but unable to underwrite any order, it’s Trumpian anarchy. There is a sudden vacuum in the world order, while Trump wields diminished U.S. military and diplomatic power wildly, with no constraints.”

reminder if not evident: US backed coups in Latin America haven't usually led to periods of democratic transitions and stabiliy, and neither did they usually have that intention (e.g. Guatemala 1954; Brazil 1964; Dominican Rep. 1965; Chile 1973; etc.)

Back in Christmas mood

New research note: Cross-Country Variation in Deportation Risk tinyurl.com/3x5ss4jk We mapped ~7,200 deportation corridors using data from 42 deporting countries. Data available as an interactive #RShiny app 👉 www.deprisk.info #DepRisk #Migration #Deportations #Data4Migration

My 11yo explained to me why the opportunity cost of spending less time with his friends isn’t worth the marginal improvement in grades. I think he’s ready for an economics degree.

There was a time when Germany had great architects. #Bauhaus Reichsknappschaftshaus by Max Taut, 1929, now the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsk...

BÆM is back! Submit your paper and join us for the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings. Three workshops with a fantastic lineup of invited speakers: Development Economics, 5-6 May Economics of Migration, 6-7 May Fairness in the Economy, 8 May Calls for papers👇https://www.baem.info/

Ist es sozialwissenschaftlicher Analphabetismus oder bewusste Irreführung oder beides? Einfach zum Haare raufen was da sogar vermeintlich seriöse Medien verbreiten

Muy feliz y honrada de contribuir a esta gran iniciativa de la Facultad de Economía - Uniandes! economia.uniandes.edu.co/voces/mas-al... En esta entrada resumo un nuevo documento de trabajo co-autorado con mis increíbles colegas @chrambrosio.bsky.social y Juliana Quigua: www.iza.org/publications...

Working paper alert: We find that being more exposed to deportation threats had strong negative wage effects driven by the most precarious jobs and agriculture

#BerlinMarathon #Kreuzberg ❤️

We are looking for PhD students! More information at www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...

This is bad, in & of itself, but also highlights the reality that no one - not 🇨🇦, or 🇬🇧, or the rest of 🇪🇺, or 🇯🇵, or 🇦🇺, & <certainly> not 🇩🇪 - is coming to poach 🇺🇸 scholars en masse, or to provide funding/jobs to offset the devastating cuts to NIH/NSF/Title VI/etc. etc. 🇺🇸 funding for science/higher ed.

WZB Berlin Social Science Center are establishing a new department for the study of democracy and are looking to appoint its first director. wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

Important speech by Tel Aviv University economics professor Ro'ee Levy at the Israel Economic Association meeting, in which he links together insights from economics research, personal experience and information about the devastating situation in Gaza: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”

Bakery or art gallery?

“Let me not leave unmentioned the specific lack of response that I encounter here in Germany. I find the German indifference about the now almost 60.000 Palestinians killed shocking.”

Berlin universities are getting a 9% budget cut and that is very bad news for the City the Students and our Future

📢 Aufruf zur Kundgebung gegen die #Kürzungen an den Berliner Hochschulen 🗓️ 14. Juli 2025 🕣 8:30 Uhr Eintreffen, 9:00 Uhr Start der Kundgebung 📍 Vor der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Oranienstraße 106 🔗Infos zu den Kürzungen und wie die FU darauf reagiert: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/hausha...

This conference cannot be missed by economists studying migration and development. The best of the best, year after year. #EconConf #EconSky

SUBMIT YOUR PAPER NOW: #Göttingen Workshop on #Ibero-American Development on September 24&25. Keynote speaker is @anamibanez.bsky.social, Vice President IDB.👉https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/events/659948.html. @unigoettingen.bsky.social @m-santos-silva.bsky.social #EconTwitter#MWKNiedersachsen

What was the former seat of the East German government is a jewel of socialist architecture #staatsratsgebäude Today quite ironically a business school

It‘s been such a fantastic workshop. Brilliant papers and keynotes perfect organisation great city

Berlin Tempelhofer Feld ❤️

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

Preparing for a lecture on a beautiful antique operation table

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Very much looking forward to this exciting workshop next month

I really like this new NYT visualization of migration in and outflow based on Facebook data www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What do the calls for deportations mean for the lives of those affected? We need more of this kind of reporting www.reuters.com/investigates...

At the 1st #LACEA-HUMANS conference in 2023 I met @andreavelasquez.bsky.social and now she is presenting our paper (with Juliana Quigua) on deportation externalities in El Salvador at #HUMANS2025

Feels so good to be in Mexico City again. Always a bit like coming home.

Salvadorans in the US are very concentrated. The Top 4 counties of Salvadorans in the US: Los Angeles, Dallas, Harris County in Texas, Montgomery in Maryland.

Con Cova Meseguer hablamos de las consecuencias qué tienen las deportaciones de EEUU sobre sus relaciones con Latinoamérica theconversation.com/el-coste-geo...

Our paper with @dleblang.bsky.social now published in @readdemography.bsky.social Message: The precariousness created via deportations turns into a push factor for new migration.

#VirgenDeLaResistancia #SanJoseDeLasFlores #MineriaElSalavdor #Chalatenango

Quick summary about the case of a young Venezuelan sent to El Salvador's prison presumed to be part of the Tren de Aragua gang without any proof or due process. theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/disap...

Looking like someone who could commit a crime is enough to send you to a concentration camp in Central America, maybe for ever. No trial. No evidence. That is the official position of the USA. Fucking hell.

Page proof arrived summary coming soon.

Hundreds of migrants send to rot in a place that’s more of a concentration camp than a prison with no perspective to ever get a trial and no perspective to ever get out.

Our paper on externalities of immigration enforcement presented by Juliana Quigua today in Berlin in the company of many exciting topics #RockwoolMigrationForum

There is so much in this reporting that doesnt make sense. All staged? Listen and judge yourself podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/t...

Ganz Gallien? Nein! Ein von unbeugsamen Galliern bevölkertes Dorf hört nicht auf, dem Eindringling Widerstand zu leisten www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU202...

Quite astonishing: The Left (Die Linke) is the strongest party in Germany among those aged 18-24

📢 I am looking for a new PhD student (Research Associate)📢 🔹 4 year position at FU Berlin (66% TV-L E13) 🔹 Research on causal effects in education, health, labour & family economics 🔹 2 hours teaching/week & statistical consulting #EconSky www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Winter is back

Terrible to see the cancellation of the public talk by Albanese with Eyal Weizman at FU Berlin after pressure by the mayor 🇩🇪 has contributed morally and materially to the destruction of Gaza; a moral catastrophe bsky.app/profile/robi...

Cancel Culture at #NotMyFUBerlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social